Sweden will push ahead with easing Covid-19 restrictions at the end of this month, removing most curbs and limits on public venues such as restaurants, theatres and stadiums, the government announced on Tuesday, Reuters reported. With most adults vaccinated, Sweden has gradually eased some restrictions during a summer lull in the pandemic. While it has seen infections mount in recent weeks amid the rapid spread of the more contagious Delta variant, deaths from the disease have remained low.

Spain's healthcare regulator approved on Tuesday a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines for people with severely compromised immune systems who are likely to have weaker protection from the conventional two-dose inoculation schemes, Reuters reported.The so-called booster shot should be administered 28 days after the previous one in some cases, and preferably the same type of vaccine is to be used, the Public Health Commission said in a statement. It would not say how many people could get such shots.

A trial of unprecedented scale starts under high security on Wednesday to judge 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across Paris on 13 November 2015, news wires reported.

Swedish authorities arrested two women from Sweden suspected of committing war crimes in Syria, the prosecutors office and local media said Tuesday, the first such arrests in the Scandinavian country, AP reported. According to a statement from the prosecutor’s office, three women from the territories once controlled by the Islamic State group arrived on Monday at the Stockholm airport.

Police in Paris arrested two suspects after a Bulgari jewelry heist on Tuesday at the posh Place Vendome. One suspect was shot in the leg by a officer before being arrested.

German industrial production increased in July after three consecutive months of declines that have reflected supply chain problems, official data showed Tuesday.

The Czech Republic has become the first EU member state to contribute funds for Lithuania to build a barrier along its border with Belarus amid a surge in migration and upcoming Russian-led military exercises, Reuters reported. The Czech donation, worth half a million euros, comes at a time when Lithuania is lobbying the EU to finance the three-meter high fence, which would stretch for more than 500 km at a cost of about 152 million euros.

Germany's Green party chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock wants to push for the removal of US nuclear bombs from Germany if she wins in the upcoming elections, dpa reported. A new German government would have to take a clear stance on the US-Russian disarmament talks, she said. Washington and Moscow started new talks in July. "Of course part of this disarmament must be the American nuclear weapons here in Germany and in all of Europe," Baerbock said Monday evening during an audience question-and-answer session on broadcaster ARD.

Poland’s parliament voted Monday to uphold the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure, AP reported. The vote came after PM Mateusz Morawiecki told lawmakers that the country faces a threat from Russia and Belarus as he sought support for the state of emergency, which was declared last week by President Andrzej Duda, a step unprecedented in the country’s post-communist history.

The junior USR-Plus partner in Romania’s centrist coalition government announced it will remove its ministers from the cabinet on Tuesday, paving the way for a parliamentary vote of no-confidence against Liberal Prime Minister Florin Citu, Reuters reported. The fracture of the three-party coalition, which includes Romania’s largest party, Citu’s Liberals, an ethnic Hungarian group and the USR-Plus, could endanger an ambitious agenda to reduce the Black Sea state’s budget and external deficits.